The New Dream Team: This Lawyer Is the Johnnie Cochran for Messy, High-Profile Airplane Incidents

Let's flash back a couple decades. Back in the '90s, if you were involved in an intensely high-profile legal situation that inspired very impassioned opinions on both sides, you'd look to the so-called "Dream Team" including Johnnie Cochran and Robert Kardashian. Now, in an age when bizarre and majorly newsmaking airplane incidents dominate the news, there's a new guy you want to call: Thomas Demetrio.

He's the lawyer who is now representing both a passenger infamously dragged off an overbooked United Airlines flight, as well as the latest passenger embroiled in viral-video drama: a mom who got in a physical altercation with a flight attendant over a stroller on an American Airlines flight. Reports as to the specifics of the latest incident vary, but here's what the video shows:

Demetrio told CNBC today that he will represent both passengers, noting of the latest case: "Her tale is compelling. The video is a microcosm of what's wrong with the airline industry today."